Receptacle.



J. R. LUSK. REGBPTAGL.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. a, 1914.

Patented Dec. 1, 1911i .tra errar Jackson a.; ansia, or vvrara-rarasBarnena mnu; rama RECEPTCLE.

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To aZZ lwhom it may concern: l

Be it known that l, JACKSON R. LUsrs, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Bronxwood Park, Williamsbridge, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, (whose post-office address is Bronxwood Park, Williamsbridge, New York,) have invented certain new and useful `improvements in Receptacles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates vbroadly to receptacles and more particularly tothat type of receptacle which includes a main body or container, a demountable cover, and a handle or bail associated therewith.

One of the objects of this invention is to provide a receptacle 'of the above class whereby the handle or bail and an auxiliary means carried by the receptacle or the cover` may be interengaged tdlset up a reaction between the bail and lthe cover, which will tend to keep the cover in place at all times.

Another object is to provide an embodiment of this invention in which such auxiliary means shall be 'carried by the cover and shall be utilizable when desired for removing the cover from the container.

Other ob 'ects and aims of this invention, more or less broad than those stated above, together with the advantages inherent, will be in part obvious and in part specifically referred to in the course of the following description of the elements, combinations, arrangements of parts, and applications of principles constituting the invention; and the scope of protection contemplated will appear from the claim Referring now to the accompanying` drawing, which 1s to be taken as a part of this specification, and which discloses one of the various possibile embodiments of the invention as at present preferred: Figure 1 is a view in elevation, partly broken away, showing an embodiment wherein an aux-iliary means is carried by the cover and interengaged with a bail carried b v the container; Fig. 2 is a view of the parts shown in Fig. 1, looking in the direction of the arrow shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view, showing more clearly the engagement of bail 8 and auxiliary bail 11 as disclosed in Figs. 1 and 2; and Fig. 4. is a view similar to Fig. 3, but showing a possible variation in the construction of the auxiliary bail 11. n

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' Application ledanuary 8, 1914. Serial t'o. 911,011.

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Referring now .particularly to Figs. 1, 2 and 3, reference lnumeral 6 indicates an open-topped type of container, as a garbage vessel. 'lhis container carries on the .outer surface of its cylindrical wall a pair of oppositely disposed and' transversely apertured years 'i'. rllhese ears support in the usualA manner a bail 8 of wire or the like. A demountable cover 9 is shown as mounted upon the container. Cover 9 carries the straps 10, within each of which is pivotally mounted as disclosed a terminus vof an auxihary bail 11. This auxiliary bail 11 may loe bent substantially as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. Bail 8 is in the figures last-men tioned provided with a notch 12; this may be formed either by lbendingthe bail wire, as shown, or by cutting out the notch to the required depth; and the auxiliary bail 11 is side the outer surface of the 4cylindrical' Wall of .the container 6, as indicated in dotted lines in Figs. 1 and 2; and normally the auxiliary bail 11 by gravity lies flat `upon' the upper surface of cover 9. When it is desired to lock the cover in place upon the container, after said cover has been mounted on the latter, auxiliary bail 11 is manually raised to its Fig. 1 position, and bail 8 is similarly raised to its full line location, so that the notch carried by bail 8 may be sprung into interengagement with the notch carried by auxiliary bail 11, as shown in Fig. 1. rlhe cover is thereby clamped into place upon the container; and the bail 8 is substantially vertically arranged so iti may be manually caught hold of, to lift the container'. l

It will be noticed that the auxiliary meine ber 11 is provided with an offset part 15 which by its engagement with the cover 9 (see Fig. 1), limits the pivotal movement of bail 11 in one direction (to the right in Fig. 1) and this oEset part 15 has such an angular relation to the plane of the bail 11, and the relative arrangement of the notches 12 and 13 is such that when these notches are interengaged the bail 11 inclines somewhat away from the vertical. Accordingly, re-

ferring lfigha blow against auxiliary member ll to the right, could not release the two bails from their interengagement,'while a blow against bail ll to the left would have -Joovercome the inclination of bail 1l away from .the vertical and therefore the danger of release by such a blow to the left is at least minimized.

lt will be seen that the vertical locking position of auxiliary bail ll will not interfere with manuall taking hold of bail 8, because as best indicated in luig. 1, the fingers of .the hand may quickly and conveniently grasp bail 8 in such a manner that auxiliary bail 1l will without discomfort separate one finger-from another. lt is also obvious that withl bail 8 disposed as shown in dotted lines, cover 9 may be with great convenience demounted from the container, since any upward pull upon said bail 1l, in the absence of engagement of thelatter with bail 8, will remove the cover from the container; while if said bails be interengaged as shown, a pull upon either of them will insurel that the entire covered container 6 will be lifted.

Referring now particularly to Fig. t, it should be understood.v that the bails 8 and ll disclosed therein are preferably suitably carried onel by the containerand the other by its cover. It will be noted that the showing of Fig. 4t differs from that of Fig. 3 in that auxiliary bail 1l is looped upon itself as shown to form the eye 14, for bail 8 is here preferably formed similar to the bail V8 shown in Figs. l., 2 and 3. Were bail 8 carried by the container 6 and bail ll carried by the cover 9, a manner in which theparts may be assembled is as follows, that is, first, bail 8 is inserted through the eye la preferably before one of the terminal eyes carried 'by said baii 8 is formed thereon or bail 8 is Y first completely .formed and the eye 14C of bail 11-is next formed so as to encircle bail 8, `and second, bail 8 is mounted upon receptacle 6, and bail l1 upon the cover 9,

i as above described. The functions of the bails and 1l shown in F ig. t are or may be similar to those described in connection with the'bails 8 and 1l shown in Figs. l, 2 and 3. But an additional advantage is present in connection with the construction shown in Fig. 4, it is thought, for the reason that at right angles to Lil 19,61@

when bail ll may be sufliicieritlftilrnecl upon inasmuch as many changes could be made l in theabove construction, and many apparently widely di'erent embodiments of my invention could be made Without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shownin the accompanying drawing shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

lt is also to be understood that the 1anguage used in the following claim is intended to cover all the generic and specific features of the invention herein described and all statements of the .scope of the invention which, as a matter of language, might be said to fall therebetween.

The combination with a vessel and its bail, of a cover for the vessel provided with a bail-holder, adapted to swing in a plane the movement of the bail, said bail-holder and bail having interengag ing notches, and the bail-holder being provided with a stop for limiting its pivotal movement in one direction, the bail-holder being inclined with respect to the cover when it has reached the limit of movement defined byv said. stop, and the notch of the bailholder. being in engagement with the notch ofthe bail when the bail-holder is in such inclined position.

ln witness whereof, l have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two w1t' nesses.

. JACKSON R. LUSK.

In thepresence oI ALBA L. MILLER, MARY H. Lewis. 

